Healing burnout through creativity with Kara Guilfoyle

<p class="p1">I’m as guilty as anyone else of <em>saying</em> that I value creativity, but then as soon as life gets busy, it’s the first thing I throw on the backburner.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">It doesn’t help that many of us got the message (from our parents, from society at large, from wherever) that creativity in adulthood is kind of frivolous and should, at best, be relegated to a side hobby.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">Whenever I find myself ignoring my creative side in favor of more “productive” things, I try to remember this quote from Brené Brown:</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><em>“Creativity has to be cultivated. Unused creativity is not benign. It metastasizes. It turns into grief, rage, judgment, sorrow, shame. We are by nature creative. It gets lost along the way.”</em></p> <p class="p1"><br /> Kara Guilfoyle can attest to just how true this is! After years of working herself into exhaustion in the intense, fast-paced, emotionally exhausting medical world, she finally realized that the best way to heal her burnout and make her feel whole again was to reignite her artistic side.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">Listen in as I ask Kara about her evolving relationship with her creativity, including...</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li3"><span class="s2">How and why her creative side got shut down when she “grew up,” <span class= "Apple-converted-space">   </span></span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s2">Her view of the healing power of creativity (you’ll want to hear her description — it’s beautiful!),</span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s2">Her struggles with procrastination and the many ways she’s learned to overcome it,<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s2">How the “menu approach” opened up a whole new world of creative freedom for her,</span></li> <l